inventive
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The selection celebrates unexpected color, inventive patterns, and lush paint, disciplined by subtle geometry, but it also documents the Paris art world of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
It’s inventive, creative, imaginative without rules — the way artwork perhaps used to be in the middle ’80s.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Will Self burst onto the literary scene in 1991 with a collection of inventive and excessive short stories that was titled “The Quantity Theory of Insanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
It's easy to see why more inventive Easter creations keep appearing on our shelves - people like to buy them.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
The gears in Violet’s inventive brain seemed to stop.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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